{"id":71322,"date":"2019-05-16T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T20:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71322"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T15:28:38","slug":"this-is-what-91-mill-gets-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71322","title":{"rendered":"This Is What $91 Mill Gets You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeff Koons’ Rabbit<\/em> has sold for $91 million dollars.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yep. It’s a steel rabbit, all right. You could have bought a late-model F16 for that kind of money, with a MacLaren to get you to the airport, and money to run ’em both for years…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s a three foot tall steel casting made from an impression of…a balloon rabbit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the sort of thing that gets the usual people huffing and puffing the usual blandishments – but not everyone is kissing up to the artist or the buyer. This from – who else – NPR’s Neda Ulaby:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ULABY: Jed Perl, another distinguished art critic, is even more grossed out than Jerry Saltz by the sale. Perl doesn’t even like the sculpture. Here’s how he describes the most expensive piece of art by a living artist.
PERL: It’s a metal molding of a plastic blow-up toy.
ULABY: Perl finds the smooth, faceless “Rabbit” emotionally empty to the point of being dead. But plenty of other people see a sense of humor in the sculpture and in its highly polished surface, a reflection of our increasingly impersonal and overhyped world.

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Well, I certainly see humor in the fact that something this trite has people this completely bonkers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is anyone but me working on a polished-steel casting of a tulip bulb, just out of pure ironic commentary? (Liberals – ask you economically-literate parents). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Koons’ Rabbit has sold for $91 million dollars.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a three foot tall steel casting made from an impression of…a balloon rabbit.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s the sort of thing that gets the usual people huffing and puffing the usual blandishments – but not everyone is kissing up to the artist or the buyer. This from – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71327,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71322\/revisions\/71327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}